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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
One of the most interesting points raised in Thomas A. Hockin's introductory essay to Apex of Power was the apparent contradiction he noted between S.J.R. Noel's use of Arend Lijphart's consociational model to describe the “Canadian political network” and the cabinet, and George Szablowski's interpretation of the same political ralationship through the application of F.G. Bailey's models of transactional and bureaucratic leadership. “The traditional transactional interpretation of prime ministerial-cabinet relations emphasizes each Minister's personal (mostly regional) ‘representative’ role in getting into the Cabinet and explaining his leverage within it … It may be in keeping with S.J.R. Noel's identification of the necessary attributes of the consociational political network in this volume. Yet George Szablowski in this volume questions whether this transactional dynamic is not threatened in Cabinet by a policy-making system which, with the aid of programme budgeting and clear leadership from the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Committee on Priorities and Planning, emphasizes rationality and the supra-regional functions of policy.”
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